Tuesday, April 7, 2015

Filling In Some Baseball History

I hope to eventually re-start my 1973 TOPPS FOOTBALL blog when my scanner is back or re-attached.

For now, I'd like to see if we can help baseball chroniclers fill in some holes.

If you have ever used the great sites Baseball-Reference.com and Retrosheet, you have probably noticed a few listings of players with "unknown transactions." Some of these mysteries can be solved if we look through the net or local libraries, through articles, biographies, and newspapers.

I've been able to find a few that I've forwarded to Retrosheet...but there are many many more. For example:

Ron Nischwitz, a pitcher in the Sixties, finished his career with Jacksonville in the Mets system. Why?

There is no transaction listed for him to go from the Detroit system to the Mets system. So I go to Google and start typing...I find this page: